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Guess bred was never a child that held a sparkler in their hand. It’s none of your business what anyone does. What happened to freedom? Your thinking you know better than me and using that as an excuse to ban anything is usurping my freedoms. Not even God does that!

I had a heck of a lot more fireworks types, including firecrackers, in my early teens than mere sparklers that burn at a very high temperature. I was lucky and was never injured. As I recall now, I grew tired of the stupid practice of fireworks and blowing up firecrackers at about age 16. Mainly people with a mentality of children, get their thrills with blowing up firecrackers, M-80’s and other fireworks.

“An estimated 7,600 of the total 11,000 fireworks-related injuries in 2016 were treated in hospital emergency departments during the period between June 18, 2016 and July 18, 2016, according to a report on 2016 by the Consumer Products Safety Commission and its National Electronic Injury Surveillance System.

CPSC Chairman Elliot F. Kaye held a press conference this week to bring attention to the dangers of fireworks especially for children and debut a video dramatizing the dangers of various popular fireworks including sparklers and bottle rockets when they are misused.

“You have to keep fireworks, especially sparklers, away from kids,” Kaye said. He said sparklers burn as hot as a blowtorch.

Deaths by Fireworks
In 2016, fireworks caused four deaths. CPSC reported that three of the four fatalities were related to reloadable aerial devices and one was associated with manufacturing homemade devices.”